Tuesday, January 19, 2016

PLS BBC School News Reporters' Presentation: Martin Luther King Jr Day- 2016

I have a dream....


Why did he make this speech?

0To stop racism and segregation

0To provide equality and peace in the community

0To improve human rights

0To guide people to peace

0For his personal conviction/belief

0For next generations’ sake
 
His achievements

0Between 1957 and 1968, King travelled over 6 million miles and spoke over 2500 times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action;
0Meanwhile he wrote 5 books as well as numerous articles.
0In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience.
0Inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream",

How did he die?
 
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
 
 
Here are PLS BBC School News Reporters' dreams;

I have a dream that,

0 people shall stop misunderstanding religions and they shall stop discriminating each other because of their religion. (Selena)

0everyone shall be treated equally (Yubing)

0life shall be without suffering and prejudice (Mariya)

0 no one shall have any fear to express themselves in the society. (Maria)

0everyone shall trust each other! (Ololade)

0Everyone shall live in peace! (Elidzhan)

Monday, January 18, 2016

PLS BBC School News Reporters asking questions to Mr. Tim Peake

Timothy Nigel Peake (born 7 April 1972) is a former regular British Army Air Corps officer (now a Reservist) and a current European Space Agency astronaut.
He is the first British ESA astronaut, the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to visit the International Space Station (the first was NASA astronaut Michael Foale in 2003) and the seventh UK-born person in space (the first was Helen Sharman, who visited Mir as part of Project Juno in 1991). He began the ESA's intensive astronaut basic training course in September 2009 and graduated on 22 November 2010.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Peake
Here are our questions to Mr. Tim Peake...